Word: kgb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lecturers reported that on January 12-13 the KGB, the Soviet security police, arrested nineteen Ukrainian intellectuals in Kiev. Lviv and Ivano-Frankivs'k and conducted searches in many more homes throughout the Ukraine...
Disgusting Thing. British Sovietologist Peter Reddaway estimates that about 150 political prisoners are held in KGB-controlled mental wards in otherwise ordinary psychiatric hospitals, or in special "institutes" directly under KGB authority...
...Medvedev, 46, a historian of the humanities, takes a more sweeping view of the Soviet past. He also takes as many risks as his brother. Earlier this fall (TIME, Nov. 1), KGB agents searched Roy's apartment and confiscated his bulky manuscript Let History Judge: The Origin and Consequences of Stalinism. But not before a copy had reached the West, where it will be published early next year...
...Party Central Committee's Academy of Social Sciences in 1965. The book was rejected. He then revised and greatly expanded it, completing the work in 1968. Forty folders full of research material on the Stalin period were among the papers taken from his apartment by the KGB...
...protest could easily have wound up in tragedy, despite a swarm of Mounties and KGB men surrounding the two leaders wherever they went. As Kosygin and Trudeau strolled on Parliament Hill, a leather-jacketed demonstrator dashed through security guards and grabbed the Soviet Premier from behind, shouting "Freedom for Hungary!" As the color drained from Kosygin's face, the man almost ripped off the Soviet Premier's coat and pushed him against a Mountie. The protester was quickly hauled away and charged with common assault. Though Trudeau observed that Kosygin "is a pretty hard-nosed guy," the Soviet...